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Dom Robinson reviews

Zippy Sets Them Up!

Distributed by
PT Video


# "Up above the streets and houses, rainbow climbing high.
Everyone can see it smiling... over the sky.
Paint the whole world with a Rainbow!"
#

And so the groovy drum solo that followed - and in fact the whole programme itself - made this probably the ultimate student television experience to cure a night out on the beer, or a perfect excuse to skip morning lectures, even if it didn't start until midday.

For anyone not up to speed, the programme is about an odd bunch who live in a house. The only human is Geoffrey, then there's a talking bear called Bungle who walks around naked by day but at bedtime has to put his pyjamas on. George is a pink male hippo who just may or may not be gay and finally comes Zippy, a weird orange creature with a zip for a mouth. Who can tell WHAT he really is?

Each episode lasts around 13 minutes and features a lot of play acting, songs and the occasional moral to be learned, with bizarre rainbow-inspired cartoon clips between scenes. If you're really lucky, you'll catch a glimpse of Rod, Jane and Freddy, the latter of which was replaced with Roger early on, who later went on to appear in that great soap Eldorado as Bunny.

There are seven episodes on this disc :

Just one gripe about these episodes. Like the recent Button Moon DVD, you don't get the opening and closing credits for each episode - bad form! They should leave each episode complete and uncut in that respect, since we see the picture fade out as the end credits are about to start, and fade into the last few seconds of the opening tune.


Acting in Rainbow really screws you up.


The picture is as colourful as you'd expect, but the look of it was never 100% brilliantly vibrant. There are zero defects though and it's presented in 4:3 fullscreen as filmed. The sound is mono but clear enough.

There are no extras, no subtitles and just one chapter per episode. The main menu contains a snippet of the theme tune and an option to choose an episode.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.

The following is a list of all the PT Video, Freemantle Home Entertainment and Telstar Video Children's DVDs reviewed online to date :

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